ABSTRACT
Florida's legislators have identified moral, tax, social service, and health issues as those evoking the most intergenerational conflicts. Intergenerational conflicts in health care policy will intensify in situations in which health care rationing becomes necessary. For some Americans, the sheer volume of press coverage strongly affects how they react to the latest policy proposals—whether on the domestic or the foreign policy front. On noneconomic domestic issues, the young were most attentive to crime, educational, environmental, and moral issues. The old closely followed crime, health, social service, and moral issues. History tells us that relatively few issues provoke drastic shifts in the direction of public opinion—or even in the intensity of public opinion. Many polls, including the Florida Annual Policy Survey, regularly ask the public to evaluate the overall job being done by various elected officials, most often chief executives and legislators.
